Disney has finally put a new Jedi Order on screen. Not in a movie. Not in canon. In an animated anthology spinoff most people scrolled past.
By the end of Star Wars: Visions Presents – The Ninth Jedi episode 8, Lah Kara had rebuilt the Order with seven confirmed members. That’s the first successful reconstruction of the Jedi since the old Expanded Universe, and the first one Disney has managed since buying the franchise.
It doesn’t count toward canon. It still matters.
Why the galaxy went so long without Jedi
Think about how strange the drought has been. The prequel trilogy watched the original Order fall alongside the Republic. Luke never founded a new one in the original trilogy. The Jedi Academy he built in the comics got wiped out by Ben Solo well before the sequel trilogy started.
So for decades, both in our world and inside the timeline, the galaxy has had no Jedi Order at all after Revenge of the Sith destroyed the first one. Plenty of fans assumed Luke would handle the rebuild after Return of the Jedi. He tried to train younglings between movies. It got thwarted. He never resurrected anything.
The job passed to Rey Skywalker after The Rise of Skywalker. And then nothing happened for seven years.
The movie that keeps not arriving
The New Jedi Order film was announced in 2023 and has been sitting in development limbo since. Simon Kinberg’s trilogy of upcoming Star Wars movies, speculated to be Episodes X, XI and XII, will presumably feature Rey’s new Order. Those are still years from theaters.
Which leaves a non-canon anthology series as the only place the Jedi actually got rebuilt.
Lah Kara runs the place
Kara is presumably the Grand Master. She earned it by beating Nawaam, the show’s antagonist, in combat and by mastering her emotions, which established her as the strongest of the Jedi both in the Force and in a lightsaber duel.
She briefly wielded a red blade and a silver one, representing the dark side and balance. She rededicated herself to the light and carries the only green lightsaber in the show.
Homen and Ethan, the founding two
Both were part of the original group that answered Margrave Juro’s call to rebuild the Order back in Star Wars: Visions season 1.
Ethan’s always been a Jedi. Homen wasn’t. He was consumed by the dark side until Juro intervened, at which point his lightsaber shifted to purple and he joined for real.
Kara, Ethan, Homen and Juro spent the series handing out lightsabers, and every recipient joined the Order properly in the finale.
Dunbai, Kwana and Lady Tafflah
The first saber went to Lord Dunbai, leader of Makoma Ko. He’d been a Jedi before, either at Reno Tsutara’s Jedi Academy or possibly even earlier in the original Order. He’d settled into life as a merchant protecting Makoma Ko. He rejoined anyway.
Kwana came next, the leader of a mining asteroid. He studied at Tsutara’s academy alongside Juro and Lah Zhima but never had much aptitude in the Force. Didn’t stop him. He jumped into the fight against Nawaam and proved himself a competent duelist, strategist and leader.
Lady Tafflah, a leader of the planet Bibin, got hers much later. She was never trained as a Jedi, though she lived on Bibin while Tsutara was training new Knights, so she knew about Lah Zhima’s role in his death. That history made her distrust every Jedi she met. They won her over by helping evacuate Bibin when Nawaam’s super weapon attacked.
The seventh member used to hunt Jedi
Bee-Toh was one of the hunters who captured Lah Zhima for Nawaam. Kara spared his life and he joined her, partly out of that and partly because he enjoys testing himself against strong enemies.
His connection to the Force looks minimal. His lightsaber lit up blue immediately anyway, marking him as aligned with the light side.
The two members the show won’t confirm
Seven is the confirmed count. The real number might be nine.
Lah Zhima and Nawaam may both have joined off-screen, though neither appeared at the Council’s first meeting. Zhima almost certainly rejoined, given he was a Jedi before he killed the corrupt Reno Tsutara, and given his daughter sits on the Council.
Nawaam is the stranger case. He spends most of the series as an antagonist trying to bring order to the galaxy by force. But right after the new Council is revealed, the show cuts to Zhima presenting the captured Nawaam with a new lightsaber, seemingly trusting him to turn his blade back to a Jedi color like blue or green. We don’t see the outcome. The implication is a change of heart and a return to the light.
The title fits him better than it fits her
If Nawaam did convert, he’d be the ninth member of the new Order, assuming Zhima joined too. That makes him the ninth Jedi in the cleanest possible sense.
Kara held the title first, as the ninth person to answer Juro’s call in the original Visions episode. It never quite worked for her. The vast majority of the people who answered were Sith, and Kara spent most of her story as one of four Jedi.
The ending is deliberately vague, which is the point. All episodes of The Ninth Jedi season 1 are streaming on Disney+, and how long this stays the newest Jedi Order in Star Wars depends entirely on whether Kinberg ever gets his cameras rolling.
